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Particle physicists use gigantic accelerators to investigate the infinitesimal.
Science fiction movies capture a classic human flaw: getting the future mostly wrong.
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Quelle horreur! Paris isn’t just a 15-minute city; it’s a five-minute city.
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With launch costs dropping and enormous numbers of new satellites filling the sky, can’t we just do it all from space?
To be successful, leaders would be wise to remember that AI isn’t a replacement for people; it exists to enhance their capabilities.
Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
Engineer James Clarke liberated John, Paul, George, and Ringo from their mono and stereo straitjackets using algorithms at Abbey Road.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
It’s not about particle-antiparticle pairs falling into or escaping from a black hole. A deeper explanation alters our view of reality.
Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here’s what to know.